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Tuesday March 19, 2013 5:48 AM

Shadow, the Pickerington Police Department’s drug-sniffing dog, has been sidelined while his
cruiser is in the shop for repairs.

Officer Jim Gallagher drives Shadow around in a Dodge Magnum. The rear seat was replaced with a
carpeted, padded, flat-platform enclosure for the Dutch shepherd. Police don’t want to put the dog
in a regular cruiser because of safety concerns.

“In a regular car, he has a much greater chance of injury,” Cmdr. Greg Annis said.

Annis also worries that the energetic dog might get into trouble of a different kind.

“Do we want to tempt fate and have him chew the interior of a regular car? No.”

Lee, who claimed to be an heiress to the Samsung fortune (company officials deny that), is
serving a six-year sentence in federal prison after pleading guilty to drug charges in 2011.
Federal prosecutors said Lee and her co-conspirators brought 7,000 pounds of marijuana to Ohio from
California.

Two production companies are planning segments on Lee’s transformation from ultrarich Hollywood
wannabe to marijuana-hauling drug trafficker, and a movie about Lee is reportedly in the works.

Meili Cady, one of Lee’s accomplices, spent a month in federal prison and a year on house
arrest. She has kept busy with a blog, “House Arrest Girl,” and has posted that she’s writing a
book,
Smoke, that has been picked up by a division of HarperCollins.

Since Cady’s release in November, she has appeared on
The Ricki Lake Show and the reality show
Who the(Bleep).

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On the Near East Side corner of Graham Street and Mount Vernon Avenue on Friday, a young man was
shocked by what he saw behind the yellow crime-scene tape that cordoned off the city’s latest
killing grounds.

William Moore, 20, had been shot a block away and had run as far as the Wheatland Foods carryout
before collapsing inside. But it was the unmarked police car parked in front of the store that
stunned the bystander.

He couldn’t stop talking about the car’s Ohio license plates — not special government plates, he
pointed out to anyone who would listen. He’d seen that car in the neighborhood many times and not
realized it was the police. Not once, he said, had he curtailed his ... we’ll just call them
activities of questionable legality.

“I’ve been doing (expletive) and never stopped because I seen the regular plates!” he said, over
and over. “I been doin’ so much (expletive), and it’s crazy!”

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A tip from those in the know:

You’re not allowed to take a cellphone into the federal building that houses the U.S. Bankruptcy
Court at 170 N. High St. Downtown. And the guards won’t hold it for you.

But workers at the Subway restaurant across the street will keep it for you, free of charge.
Just remember to pick it up. And maybe buy a cookie for their trouble.